Members Northstar Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 You might have heard about the Evertune bridge, a bridge that keeps a guitar constantly in tune. David Levita, guitarist for Alanis Morissette, had an Evertune bridge installed on his 62 Gibson ES-335 because, in his own words, the tuners are shot. Now watch this promo video for Evertune (at 3:35): [YOUTUBE]6g-1OYg7efY[/YOUTUBE] The guy prefers to have his 62 ES-335 routed instead of changing the tuners? I'm all for modifying guitars but there was a much simpler solution to his problem than doing that to the guitar... On the other hand, the bridge makes it sound really sweet higher up the neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 He's a bit crazy to hack up a 62. Get a new one and put it on that. EDIT: Wait. So, can you bend with that bridge or would the springs just compensate for it? That would be entirely useless to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Into Nation Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 IIRC you can set the springs right at their 'end of travel' for lack of a better term, and can then do bends. Doing that though I think sort of kills the evertune bit since I would think that it could then go sharp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Flogger59 Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 One word: Boogered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sxyryan Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I don't care if it's a vintage Gibson or a brand new Squier. That's not how you fix bum tuners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members caveman Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 His main thing was positional tuning and layering guitar parts. The bridge saved valuable studio time by eliminating the need to stop and adjust tuning. Probably a good thing for a guy that spends a lot of time in the studio and in his situation, definitely not stupid. Changing tuners would not solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodwater Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 that's insane...what he did, that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scuzzo Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 prob the nut.. or how he wraps the strings..seems a bit like killing a fly with a jack hammer..yea, it will work.. but its not the most elegant solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strtdv Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I'm all for using your guitars as tools rather than keeping them a collectors pieces, but I wouldn't have done that to an early 60's 335. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 If you go to their website and watch some of the other videos the system starts to make a whole lot more sense IMHO. The way that it works and what it actually does it pretty impressive. I'm not buying one, but I am not a studio musician recording layers upon layers of tracks and paying by the hour for studio time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Belva Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I'm not buying one, but I am not a studio musician recording layers upon layers of tracks and paying by the hour for studio time. Wait, hasn't home recording technology almost eliminated studios? If not it won't be long. I still can see saving time regardless. Need time to do other things. Like fap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Northstar Posted June 23, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 If you go to their website and watch some of the other videos the system starts to make a whole lot more sense IMHO. The way that it works and what it actually does it pretty impressive.I'm not buying one, but I am not a studio musician recording layers upon layers of tracks and paying by the hour for studio time. The system is not in question, just the guitar player's judgment. As someone said earlier, it's like taking a hammer to swat a fly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stevenjuel Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 even thought he says it dosnt sound differently i cant imagine that take out alot of wood and replacing it with metal would make it sound good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members _pete_ Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I have no issue with whatever anyone does to their guitar but that seems goofy to me.If the tuners were bad (it takes a major problem for any tuner to "slip") why are they still on the guitar?Wouldn't they be fighting the new bridge system?To me it would have made more sense to replace them with Historic spec parts and keep the old ones safe in a box.He could also have had the originals rebuilt if the gears were worn out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 The system is not in question, just the guitar player's judgment. As someone said earlier, it's like taking a hammer to swat a fly... I think the system is in question. A bridge that prohibits bending is pretty f-ing silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Northstar Posted June 23, 2010 Author Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I think the system is in question. A bridge that prohibits bending is pretty f-ing silly. The system does not prohibit bending at all. The website explains it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ashasha Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I wasn't defending the first guy; even though it's his {censored} and I couldn't care less. I was defending the system which I thought was the issue here; my bad. Yeah, I've never heard of tuners actually slipping anyway; I thought that a worm gear like that it was impossible for that to happen anyway? I mean 90% of tuning issues are nut or winding techniques anyway right? Granted you won't be able to go without tuning for a week at a time, but just swap the damn tuners or get them restored. Couldn't cost more than that system did and the depreciation on the guitar. Neat system, not something I'd want to do unless I was doing a build from scratch or something though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbrown49 Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 The system does not prohibit bending at all. The website explains it all. I'm familiar with how it works. To get traditional bending feel you have to tune it too the bend stop. If you do that it can only compensate in one direction which makes it kinda pointless. If you don't tune to the bend stop you have to bend the string too the bend stop and then keep bending to get to the bended note. Thats a whole lot of extra movement. I don't know, just seems like a fussy way to fix bad technique and poor instrument maintenance. I rarely have tuning issues that take me longer than a few seconds sort out anyway, but I put a lot of care into keeping my instruments well maintained with fresh strings on and maintaining my hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members photon9 Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 Wait, hasn't home recording technology almost eliminated studios? If not it won't be long. I still can see saving time regardless. Need time to do other things. Like fap. Especially when you can get a mixer starting at around one benjamin, and obviously y'all have compukers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kerouac Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I play my guitars because I love 'em and vintage value doesn't matter a bit to me. If I love a guitar and it needs some modification it's my guitar and I'll do whatever the hell I please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IamBurnout Posted June 23, 2010 Members Share Posted June 23, 2010 I play my guitars because I love 'em and vintage value doesn't matter a bit to me. If I love a guitar and it needs some modification it's my guitar and I'll do whatever the hell I please. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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